Spring-winding electric motor.



H. KOCOUFIEK,

SPRING WINDING ELECTRIC MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3. I9I7.

Patented May14,1918.

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HENRY KOCOUELEK, Dill JERSEY CITY, NE?! JERSEY, ASSLTGITQR T JULIA S EVJART, EXECUITREIX 033 THE WILL 0F JOEE K. STEWART, DECEASED.

SPEENG-VJINDING ELECTRIC EIIOTOB.

Specification of Eetters Patent.

Patented. ftii, ilillh Application filed February 3, 1917. Serial No. 148,539.

To all whom it may concern Be it lrnown that I, HENRY Kocomnin, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Spring Ninding Electric Motors, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved electric motor particularly adapted for winding up the spring, or the like, of a spring motor, the same being designed especially for the purpose of wind iug the spring motors or phonographs or sound-reproducing devices. It consists; in the elements and features or construction shown and described, as indicated in the claims.

In the drawings Figure l is an axial section of an electric motor embodying this irwentionw Fig. 2 is a section at the line, %--2, on Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section at the line, 3-3, on Fig. 1.

The electric motor shown in the drawings is of familiar construction as to the hold, arihature and winding and circuit connections of both field and armature, said customary parts being represented in famil ar or conventional form requiring no specific description. The armature shaft, 1, extends into a casing, 2, mounted or built upon one end of the main motor casing, 3, said casing, 2, being for inclosing a speed-reducing train which comprises a worm, l upon the arniature shaft, 1, meshing with a worm gear s, journaled on a shaft, i in the casing, 2, and extending in alincment with -and as here shown extending out through,-an aperture in one side wall of said casing, 2 and having upon one face a helical thread or gear element, 5, which meshes with a pinion, 7, on a shaft, 6, parallel to the armature shaft. The motor-energizing circuit wires, 8 and 9, extend into the casing, 3, and are connected with contact pieces, 10 and ii, mounted upon an insulating block, 12, the

contact piece, 11, being a spring contact adapted to be forced into contact with the piece, 10, for closing the circuit and to react out of contact therewith. The contact-making arm of said contact piece, 11, extends in general parallel with the shaft, 8, which is on the opposite side of said contact piece, 11, from the contact piece, 10. On the shaft, 6, there are two cams, both of fiber or other insulating material, one of the cams, 13, is mounted for rotation with the shaft, 6, and is circular except as to a peripheral notch or recess, 13 which has one shoulder abrupt and the other sloping, so that as the cam rotates with the shaft, 6, thespring contact piece, 11, at one position in the rotation of the cam rests in the recess 01 notch and is out of contactwith the contact piece, 10, while during the remainder oi the rotation of the contact piece it first, as a cam, crowds the spring-contact piece, 11, into contact with the piece, 10, closing the circuit, and during the remainder of the operation until the notch again comes around to said springcont-act piece, holds the two contact pieces in contact, maintaining the circuit closed. The other cam, 14, is mounted for longitudinal movement along the shaft and preferably, though not necessarily, it is loose on the shaft as to rotation so that it is not rotated by said shaft, 6. As illustrated, it is positively prevented from thus rotating by having a small segment cut away at one side as seen at 14:, making a fiat portion which seats against the cover, 16, of the casing, 2. This cam, 14, has one edge beveled engaging the slopingly bent end portion, 11, of the contact piece, 11, so that when said cam, ii, is forced inward along the shaft, 6, the engagement of said beveled edge of said cam with the sloping end portion of the contact piece, 11, forces the latter into contact with the piece, 10, and closes the circuit. The elastic reaction of the contact piece, 11, tends to force the cam, 14, out along the shaft, permitting the necessary reaction for movement out of contact of the contact pieces, 11 and 10; but more perfectly to insure this'i-eaction there is interposed between the cams, 12-) and 1%, on the shaft, 6, a spring, i

15, which insures said reacting .niovenient. 'lhere is mounted in the end wall of the oasnee ing, 2, a circuit-breaking push button, 17, which may he conveniently centered on the end of the shaft, 6, but which is Without engagement therewith, and which serves, by

being thrust inward, for forcing the cam, 14,

in the direction for forcing the contact piece,

11, into circuit-dosing contact with the contact piece, 10, and holding the circuit closed as long as the operator continues to press the push-button, but ready upon release or" the push-button, to react out of contact with the contact piece, 10. But it Wiii be observed that such reaction can oniy occur when the recess, 13 of the cam, 13, is in a position to receive the contact piece, 11, in said reacting movement, The result is that when the operator has pressed the push button for establishing the contact and closing the circuit and the motor has been thereby ener ized, the push-button being held depressed iong enough to permit the rotation of the motor to rotate the cam, 13, far enough to take the notch, 13, away from the contact piece, 11, the circuit will remain closed, notwithstanding the release of the push button, until the cam, 13, completes its revolution, bringing the notch again around into position to receive the contact piece, 11, Which will then react hack into it, opening the circuit. The device thus operates to automatically open the circuit and de'e'nergize the motor after a certain period of operation commenced by the manual operation cit the push-button.

The mode of use of the device for Winding the spring motor of a phonograph, or like instrument, is that the motor is mounted upon the Winding shaft of the phonograph by means of a shaft, 20, which extends through the hollow or axially apertured shaft, 4-, of the gear, t, With a sliding and feathered or equivalentengagement therewith so as to be inovahly engageahle with and be rotated by said gear shaft, 4,, said shaft, 20, heing arranged to be screwed or otherwise entered into connection with the Winding shaft of the motor, in Whatever manner the usuai Winding cranir is arranged to be attached to said Winding shaft, the winding-up motor heing then mounted on said shaft, 20, by sliding the hoiiour shaft, i onto said shaft, 29. intending to operate the phonogr h, the user, not-knowing to what extent the motor may he sound, will denec, button, causing the motor trfhc and to wind the motor to the or spending to one corn r when the phonograph motor is completeiy WOlHlCl, and if not the operator will again depress the push button and Will repeat this process until the phonograph motor is sound as tightly as the user desires. in order that the electric motor may not be stalled, and thereby become over-heated from remaining in circuit after the winding is completed as far as the electric motor can wind it, the gear, a, is trictionally carried on its shaft, 4*, between two spring disks, 21 and 22, at opposite sides of said gear, the disk, :21, being stopped against a shoulder, F, on the shath i and the disk, 22,]oeing bound against the opposite side of the gear icy a nut, 23, screwed onto the shaft, 46 and which may be screwed up to any desired degree or" tightness. It will be understood that the disks, 21 and 22, are splined on the shaft so as to rotate therewith, as shown at 22* I claim:

1. in a Winding motor in combination with the electric circuit in which it is energized, an armature shaft; a speed-reducing train actuated thereby; a cam actuated by said train; a contact piece actuated by the cam for closing the circuit adapted to cause the circuit to he open at a certain position in each cycle of the cams movement; a man ually-operable circuit breaker operating on the same contact piece which the earn so tuates,

2. in a spring Winding motor in conchination with the electric circuit in "which it is energized, the armature shait; a speed-reducing train rotated thereby; a care rotated by said train; a contact piece actuated by the ca1nior closing the circuit at a certain point each revolution of the care; a manually operahle circuit breaicer upon the same contact piece which the act-notes, I

8. In a spring winding motor in comhination with the circuit in which it is energized, the armature shaft; a speed-reducing actuated thereby; two canes on a a said one rotated therehy and niovahie thereaiong, the fir a peri'ohera-i oma e determined number of revolutions of the opening the circuit ardless of the rearmature shaft, and & yiel frictional SlStMlCStOf the spring wound. drive connection in the train afi a, point In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 10 'therein subse uent to the circuit-controlling" set my hand at Jersey City, N. 3., this 29 5 meansmiapte to slip upon a predetermine day of January, 1917.

resistance to rotation to permit the motor to complete thenum or of revolutions for KOGOEK. 

